Task 2

The Three act Narrative

The Beginning. 


Here I'm going to write about the three act narrative which is essentially a story structure, the start, the middle and the end.

The start of the story should be something that intrigues the reader, something that can hook them in to find out more. shouldn't be a challenge to read but rather something that increases the curiosity of the reader, " who is this? " " why is his mum an alcoholic drunk ? " " how did things get to the point of where they are? " for example.

It shouldn't be in depth but rather something that raises alot of questions, the beginning needs to be suttle, and calm, but rather effective to make the reader continue. This also works the same way for animations or animated stories, there needs to be cause as to create effect.

The Middle

The Middle is probably the most important piece to an effective story, it's about increasing the tension of the story, as alot of climatic events start to unfold, and alot of crisis starts to play a main role in the story.

this is the bit of the story where it grabs the reader and raises the interests and the excitement as the main events and plots start to unfold within the story. the middle of the story must have an understandable plot, and understandable crisis points, it is the most delicate part of the story, because if it does not make sense, it will kill the readers interest quickly if not immediately.

The End

Here the main conflict is resolved, and the loose ends are tied up. tension and excitement falls quickly, and a good ending leaves he readers satisfied even if they aren't happy with the way things turn out, sometimes its a bad and emotional ending, sometimes its a good emotional ending, both equally grab the emotions and decide on whether the book is a good book to read, or a good story to read/watch.

This is called a story Arc, you can visualise it by thinking of a diagram, where the tension and excitement rises and then abruptly declining. depending on the type of story, the rise may be gradual or it may be sharp, but the ending always shortly comes after the reader reaches the climax. What keeps the reader interested is the climax and the arc, as the reader wants to find out what happens in the next chapter, these are called cliffhangers. Once they know the plot, there isn't much for the reader to hold onto except a gradual conclusion to the story.

Story Example 1

The cat in The Hat

The Beginning

The cat in the Hat's narrative, starts with the cat going to a household where two children are and their mother has gone out, the cat brings two creatures called thing 1 and thing 2 and starts to do tricks with them to impress the two children.

The Middle

The Children, not being too fazed by the cat, decide to take thing 1 and thing 2, after making a mess and not impressing the family pet goldfish, the children gain control of the things, and have control of the cat, so ends up having to go and clean up the house.

The End

after having to clean up his mess the cat in the hat leaves the house as the mother returns, not being successful in pleasing the children he ends up having to leave.

Story Example 2

The Grinch who stole Christmas

The Beginning

The Grinch is about a cave dwelling creauture, who lives up in the mountains of a town called whoville, with his faithful bit dim companion dog called max, every year he puts up with the festives of christmas, and dislikes it along with the fact he was born a heart 3x too small.

The Middle

One year the grinch decides he has had enough, and creates a plan and a plot to destroy christmas through the meand of burglary, taking everyones presents depriving them of christmas.

The End

Despite his plan being extremely successful, the citizens of whoville celebrate christmas anyway, and the grinch learns that christmas isnt about the presents, and that its about family and friendship, and decides to return the presents, and the citizens of whoville welcome him to become a part of their community.

Story Example 3

The Lorax

The beggining

The lorax is about a story within a story, with a very interesting moral, its about a boy who goes to a very run down area, to go and see " the once..ler " the once..ler told the boy he'd tell him what happened to the area if he gave him 15 cents, a nail, and the shell of a great great great grandfather snail, and the once'ler starts to tell the story.

The Middle 

the once'ler explains how he came to a land with lots of truffula trees, and explained he started cutting down the trees for thneeds, for which everyone needs, made for clothes, after cutting down several trees the lorax appeared out of a tree stump, and explained he speaks for the trees as the trees cannot talk, and said there would be grave consequnces if he carried on, the once'ler ignored the warnings and continued to ravage the lands with his family, while the lorax and all his friends left, the lands were destroyed.

The End

the lorax left a sign, saying " unless " and he once'ler explained to the boy, he didnt know what it meant at the time and didnt care, but now he knows what it means after everything is and was destroyed, and he explained it meant, enless...someone cared. and then he gave the boy the last truffula seed, and told him if he cared enough, he could plant the last seed, and bring back he trees, and maybe the lorax and his friends will return.